REACTION! STAR TREK: TNG, 5x6, Gallifrey Gals Get Warped! S5 Ep6, The Game

[@OldManFerdiad]

I loved Kat's suggestion that Beverley Crusher has a closet full of Wesley's terrible Season 1 sweaters. I also think Wesley is great in this episode, having that coming of age experience of coming back from "space college" to find out all the adults aren't the infallible heroes he used to think they were. Only this being Star Trek, the grownups in his life are going to space sex resorts, getting addicted to orgasm games and being waaay to into chocolate sundaes.

[@thefuppits]

Without a doubt, Wesley's greatest episode. No sign of the "shut up Wesley" here! Kinda wished he got his own spin-off with Lefler, they made a great pair.

[@jerodast]

@@thefuppits from zero to hero in this one :) I guess he wasn't bad in final mission, but just fully redeemed here haha

[@DerekHartley]

The android head thing was even simpler than split screen. The actor, Ian Holm was actually INSIDE the set for those shots.

[@fakecubed]

Yet another trip to Risa goes wrong. That's Picard, Geordi, and now Riker. You'd think after a while Starfleet would put out a warning beacon.

[@jpwphoenix1701]

In all the years I've rewatched this episode, I'd never thought of Etana's head that way! I'm probably going to think of that all the time now. Also, never mind Data being the one person the game doesn't work on, how did it work on Geordi?! He doesn't see the same way as everyone else. Anyway, I loved the whole Wesley love story. It was really cute.

[@JoshHowardChannel]

It being addictive and Geordie can still see just not the same way everyone else does. Like you said Except maybe Data. But I think Geordie can still get psychotropicly addicted while I don't think we seen that happen ever to Data

[@joer3720]

This episode falls into the “lovable nonsense” category for me 😀 Riker’s sex life causes so much trouble 😂

[@theevilascotcompany9255]

Riker's schlong is like the holodeck: it's responsible for 40% of the Enterprise's problems, and is the solution to the other 60%.

[@Christopherjonesartpage]

Wesley asking someone out on a date: "Hey, I usually do this kind of thing solo but... if you're not busy tonight... would you like to save the ship with me?"

[@lemonherb1]

Fan complaints about Wesley saving the ship every other episode just hasn't been heard by the writers as he returns for one episode, just to save the ship. But yes, his plot with Robin was cute

[@chriskelly3481]

There is NO way that Will Wheaton was, is, will always be not utterly ENAMOURED by the stunning Ashley Judd.

[@stephenvincentgiles1306]

Every time I eat a hot fudge sundae, I think of Troi.

[@makasete30]

Are you depressed?

[@BammerD]

I'll have ten chocolate sundae's.

[@jonathanross149]

@@BammerD I have never seen someone eat 10 chocolate sundays

[@BammerD]

@@jonathanross149 I'm in a very bad mood and since I've never eaten before, I should be very hungry.

[@jonathanross149]

Kat lit up when Wesley was mentioned.

[@joedantuono123]

A young Ashley Judd thats the Actress

[@richardb6260]

Stimulating the pleasure center of the brain never bothered me since it was probably the easiest way to addict someone without drugs. It's like the wireheads in Larry Niven's Known Space stories. People who can stimulate their pleasure centers at the press of a button. Some do nothing else until they starve.

[@MatthewBluefox]

Robin and Wesley were so cute together, and Ashley Judd was the purrfect pick for this role! She was my crush for a while when I watched through TNG for the furst time back in the 90s. ^^ No wonder she was also Wesley's crush(er), his lipbite was too excited. :)

[@chrisbullard5901]

I wanted a side note from Wesley about learning some of these tactics during the Angosian incident, or pulling out the old Elway subspace transporter device and pulling the Space Irish tactics from “The High Ground”. Somewhere, O’Brien is having flashbacks, and muttering in his PTSD nightmare about “more security!”

[@daniellanctot6548]

Very nice link back to that detail, which I never heard anyone reference in this context before; and will wholeheartedly accept as head-cannon moving on! 👏👏👏 Brava, sir! Brava!

[@satyrquaze]

I always saw the alien make-up on that lady as a butt on her head. But then I first saw this episode at like 12-13 years old.

[@joedantuono123]

I cant wait to see your reaction on the next 2 episodes!!! There a goodie

[@kschneyer]

Wesley definitely improved as a character over time. In particular, I think he was a better character once he became an occasional character instead of a regular.

[@Skeezer66]

This story is a version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers', without the pods, or other old sci fi films. That type of story always makes me too paranoid, LOL!! I usually avoid this one, but I wanted to see the reaction.

[@Billinois78]

9:59 "Um. Excuse me. My eyes are down here".

[@travisbounds4746]

i just realized the enterprise in the graphic is the NCC-1701-F

[@nateperkins9860]

This is one of my favorite TNG episodes, its fun, casual and easy.

[@ElDuderino84]

I still wonder how they got Geordi, since he’s blind. If Guinan was on board, I wonder if she would’ve noticed the strangeness of the game itself. The writers did a great job to not upset fans, who wouldn’t want to see another episode of Wesley saving the ship. So thankfully Data showing up to save the day made it better.

[@jerodast]

honestly data either saving or endangering the ship all the time just by being an android does bug me a lot...

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

I hope you two both know that you're awesome. I loved TNG since I was a kid, but seeing you love it too has added something to it.

[@silvervibranium2832]

Hope you guys saw Journey to Babel before watching the next episode. But you probably already watched by now

[@Raja1938]

Nope. They've seen several TOS episodes, but not that one.

[@dcsignal5241]

Interesting reaction, this is one of the few Wesley Crusher episodes that I like. I guess the memory of 1st season Wesley was starting to fade at this point.

[@jkhoover]

Every episode where Wesley returns is really good, IMO.

[@jamesalexander5623]

Roboin is played by Ashley Judd .... daughter of the Late Country Singer Naomi Judd and the Half-Sister of Wynonna Judd.

[@TheGoauldApophis]

Ashley Judd's first on screen kiss.

[@karter95]

The next two episodes are two of my favorites I would put them both in my top 10 list

[@thebahana]

Nice hat

[@jerodast]

I love the edit you went with here, which is like 75% Wesler/Lefley, and it just makes the ep feel so much better!

[@JeanParisot]

It's so cute watching you two giggle over the romantic stuff between Wesley and Lefler. Back in the days, us boys referred to these scenes as the yucky mushy stuff! 😁

[@airmaildolphin7013]

Yay! It's back. It was here... then gone.... now back....

[@joer3720]

I strongly suspected this would be a funny reaction. It did not disappoint 😀

[@xtraspecialmango]

Should have been a 2 Parter! - Slow(ish) burn.

[@StarkRG]

Oh man, this is one of my all-time favourite episodes. The Wesley/Robin romance is probably the first one that _really_ hooked me (I think I was still too young, 6, for The Dauphin to have made that kind of impact, and it was also more of a puppy-love type thing), and still one that makes my heart flutter while watching, particularly the goodbye hug at the end. I was almost 9 when this aired so it probably played a big part in the development of my romantic awareness. I just want someone to look at me the way Robin looked at Wesley. Ashley Judd is such an underrated actor and I'm sad she's not in more stuff. Given that she's in her 50s now, I think she's probably a victim of that stupid Hollywood thing where any woman over 40 is just unacceptable for almost any role unless it's a grandmother. I wonder if Alex Kurtzman could be persuaded to create a slice-of-life drama focusing on Wesley and Robin in their middle-aged years as important Starfleet engineers. Ooh, I would watch that so _hard_ Honestly, this is the first time I've ever heard someone interpret the game in a sexual way, I've always seen it as a purely drug-type reaction. Wesley refers to it as a "psychotropic" addiction, which is a term used for drugs that alter behavior, moods, thoughts, or perception. The faces of people experiencing it don't, to me, look anything like an "oh face", they look like stoned people focusing on something we can't see. Perhaps that's why I don't have a problem with that part of the episode.

[@Calzaki]

Imagine if the game had a freenium option!

[@17nationarmy37]

Unification is next...😮

[@Pandaemoni]

I just learned that this episode is 1000% funnier if every time one character introduces the Game to another they do so with, "Would you like to try my weird sex game?"

[@TearyEyesAnderson]

Before the end of this series, I'd love to see a cross-over episode between "Gallifrey Gals" and "Reverse Angle", either a wrap-up episode or full episode review. ;)

[@terrellkirkman2078]

I got the perfect tag line for this episode. The Game: Don't Hate the Player

[@gluuuuue]

Lol, that alien's forehead does look like a butt. She's literally Captain Butthead. I guess I'd never seen the addiction part as sexual at all. I grew up in the '80s and "Don't do DRUGS, kids!" was already everywhere, and yeah, I was a teenager and hormonal at the time, but this was before I knew about the association between chocolate and sex. (So I was just like, "Okay.. Troi *really* likes chocolate. I don't find it that great, but whatever..") I think this ep was less popular because it was another Wesley Saves the Entire Ship (Again..) story and mostly notable for Ashley Judd's guest appearance, but she and Wheaton do exhibit pretty good chemistry and, looking back, their interaction probably was the best part of the ep.

[@jerodast]

honestly I think the sexual thing just comes from Riker's moan when he first has it put on him by a woman on Risa while in bed. you just can't get rid of that icky feeling after that haha

[@jonathanross149]

Yes, you beat back CBS

[@redviper6805]

First time I saw this episode I thought it was going to be a two-parter!

[@mconnaghan]

Another addictive cat video!

[@mconnaghan]

... cat in the hat video

[@fourthdrawerdown6297]

Dr. Crusher (thinks) - ‘ dinner date - he must be depressed.’🤔

[@dwilborn1257]

This episode creeped me out as a teen.

[@cypher515]

Oh, it's possible Ashley and Wil connected, I'm pretty sure he hadn't met Anne yet. (He's been married for decades now and I still say almost every one of the best episodes of TableTop has Anne in them.)

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

She's a delight, alright. I love that show.

[@cypher515]

@@jean-paulaudette9246 I have a grand hope that whatever the settlement was over "Titansgrave" between Wil and the current owners of Geek and Sundry, the rights to TableTop got unstuck with it.

[@bustedsim]

"And the winner gets a ROLEX!" *chaos and panic ensues*

[@amy_grace]

@@cypher515 Sadly, Wil has been pretty blunt on his Tumblr that TableTop is never coming back (and he’s as bummed about it as we are)

[@jkhoover]

They didn't. I've heard Wil say that it was awkward for him, and I think it was his first kiss too and he really didn't want to be on screen. I might be getting the story a little wrong, but he felt forced to do the kiss.

[@daniellanctot6548]

Cringe factors and cheesiness of the episode aside, I still give credit to the writers of this episode for basically showing the addiction to smart phone app games: Everyone walking around, zombie like, focused on their screen with the addictive lights and sounds. But while Forbes apparently put this episode in the "alternative top ten" episode of the series (Which is a weird way to say that they consider it to be in the top 20 episodes without being in the top 10!?), I have indeed always thought it was one of the lesser episodes of the post-season 2 era; but I'll admit to being biased by not being a fan of the "Return of the boy-wonder" angle of the episode, compounded by the teenage romance aspect which my teenage self in the 80s did not care for (Which is less of a factor now)

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

Hee hee it's like a murder mystery dinner date.

[@Yggdrasil42]

Hmm, it didn't give me sexual annotations, but definitely addiction to pleasure which is what most drugs and addictions do. Ashley Judd was great in this.

[@MichaelJohnson-vi6eh]

This sounds weird but about 4 years ago about 10 of my friends all got involved in yoga and or crossfit at the same time. It was weird because whenever I saw them, they would talk about yoga (or crossfit or whatever) and they would be gung ho and they all said that I should join their studio or come do crossfit with them. It became uncomfortable. Of course when I was in my late 20s I got involved with sort of a culty group and they really pushed us to go out and invite people. When I quit I was really embarrassed.

[@empirejeff]

Is it a fun game?

[@suk6323]

Please remember, sci-fi folk, that videogames are bad for you.

[@mrlol2238]

At least Troy wasn’t getting a foot massage AND eating ice cream…..would never finish……the episode. It’s like a car accident, or when someone grows a beard to look older….you know you should, but you can’t help to not look away.

[@Jamienomore]

Very Good Reactions Girls. I have the perfect answer for a period. A full stop.

[@benserk1]

If you put the plot of this episode in Doctor Who.. it would fit so well.. And Star Trek TNG having sexual innuendoes to compete with network shows of the time lol

[@sasamichan]

I always found the idea of a game almost taking over the ship except for Wesley weird. Also there are other Wesley episodes I like better. not shore if we are close to or beyond that episode in the time line. I forget when things happen.

[@JLRules]

Probably the only people on the planet who like Wesley.

[@CarrotFlowers421]

This episode wasn't as bad as I remembered. Star Trek brings complex, real life moral quandaries every single episode so when they write these "very special episodes", it comes across ham fisted. This felt like a Saved By The Bell episode about the dangers of drugs.

[@Sagitarria]

Oh good you are watching the “pokemon go” episode

[@falcychead8198]

It was this episode that introduced me to Chocolate Porn.

[@tuhkathri9126]

I would pay good money for you guys to review Babylon 5

[@andreabindolini7452]

Alien and aliens. No need to see the others.

[@mikemartel3138]

I think the fact that they made it a game made it look more innocent, if they would have made it a pill people would not have been more likely to try it

[@jonathanross149]

I think I just ignore the serial aspects of the game and count this as a good episode

[@TheGoauldApophis]

"She's the shooting image of her dad." Not really.

[@at1212b]

It's future Tik Tok.

[@desmondgriffin8479]

I'm older than both of you and I didn't think the way they portrayed the addictiveness was cringeworthy at all. Maybe my generation is not bothered by such things then and now.

[@knight4iam]

I love you two ladies... but the "Muppet" comment someone just made below is going to make me laugh every time I watch you 😂 from now on. I love your reactions and look forward to each one. Will subscribe to patreon at some point. About this GAME episode... your reaction surprised me. When it was released 30 years ago, fans loved it! And I'm a very conservative person and the sessy stuff didn't bother me. Has our modern liberal culture become sessually repressed? That's a real question BTW if you are interested in replying. I'm 50 and my mom is 70. She doesn't think anything negative either.

[@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t]

Vidya gaems bad.

[@FortoFight]

I can't like this episode because it comes across as someone very opposed to videogames writing an episode to act as propaganda against them. I'm not saying that was the actual intention but it's my interpretation that I can't unsee.

[@fourthdrawerdown6297]

Commander Riker (thinks) ‘ chocolate - she must be depressed .’ 🤔

[@shadowbanbaitaccount7874]

When you search KZbin for Star Trek reactions ... but realise there's only these two muppets doing them! 😔

[@knight4iam]

Lol. I kinda like these two, but you just gave me a good belly laugh 😃. They grow on you. Lol muppets. Still laughing 😃

[@Bobsmith-xq2pr]

read the username

[@knight4iam]

@@Bobsmith-xq2pr I'm somewhat behind in some things I think... what's the significance of the name? Unless someone is actually using it to shadowban. By posting a funny comment?

[@Bobsmith-xq2pr]

@@knight4iam he's trying to bait youtube into shadowbanning him, by posting toxic comments and getting down voted and reported

[@bcn1gh7h4wk]

I was totally Wesley when TNG was around, and I TOTALLY had a crush on Lefler. I mean, going from dinner date to straight up "let's go to the lab and dissect this thing"? That's my idea of a romantic dinner date. then I saw that the actress had become a feminazi..... fortunately the crew of Shield Of Tomorrow rescued the character and did her right.

[@scn123169]

Wtf is wrong w/ you? They didn't do this because of video games. It was simply a plot device.